Montreal is currently hosting the FINA aquatic world championship and one pleasant surprise has been the performance of the women water polo team which has managed to eliminate Italy (the Athens gold medalist) and Greece (the Athens silver medalist). They also showed a remarkable amount of resiliency in the quarter-final game against Greece, coming back from a 5-1 deficit to snatch an 8-6 victory.

The stage was all set for the semi-final match against Hungary. There wasn’t an empty seat to be found, a gorgeous sunset was illuminating the sky and Radio-Canada had decided to forgo its usual prime-time schedule to carry the game live. This was my first introduction to water-polo and I really liked what I saw. It’s a fast-paced, high-scoring, game and the four 7 min quarters are the perfect length for my diminished attention span.

Unfortunately, victory was elusive but there is still hope for bronze tomorrow afternoon against Russia. I just checked and there are tickets available…we’d go but we used up a lot of of our vacation days this month.

Non-Canadians may not understand the meaning of this entry title. Both the women and men Canadian hockey teams returned from Salt Lake City with gold medals around their necks. It turns out that a Loonie (a gold-colored $1 coin) had been placed under the ice by the Canadian ice maker. This precious piece of Canadian sports history now sits in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

After reading a really funny entry in the Vienna MetroBlog, I decided to check out the search terms that led new readers to the Montreal MetroBlog this month.

1- montreal orgy
Eight different searches used a combination of those two words. If Google needs another revenue stream, maybe they should develop a way for people who do similar searches to find each other.

I’ve been looking for the person(s) responsible for these painted bits of wood that have been placed all over the city.

I’ve seen them on Sherbrooke around Saint Laurent. Notre Dame around Saint Francois Xavier. Saint Denis from Roy until Laurier. I’ve heard of them being on Bellechase, Laurier and elsewhere around the city.

Unless the city has become really cheap and sloppy, they aren’t made by the city. And while the city has become cheap, I’m not certain that I believe they would get this sloppy.

And then if you look at the lower right hand corner of the sandwich type of sign, you can see what appears to be a signature – and it sure as shootin’ doesn’t look like anything city-like.

If you’ve seen ’em elsewhere, or know who is responsible, or have other pictures, please post or let me know, I am extremely intrigued by this.

It appear to me that some private citizen is taking it into their own hands the responsibilty of trying to get rid of some cars.

Selling articles outside in front of stores is not something that happends a lot in Montreal. When it does happen, the street is often closed to cars like on Mont-Royal or Saint-Hubert.
Last week, this store on Saint-Denis was going on the street along with many others. This particular store had all kinds of colorful items.

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Dai Tong Lam is a Buddhist monastery way up north of Montreal. Every summer there’s a bunch people coming up there visiting, enjoying the free air. Some people like to live off-shore Montreal to be away of the city, but unless you’ve been to a place like Dai Tong Lam, you have no idea what fresh air is.

It’s a really fun drive up there and pretty much like a video game, except that staying on the road is a very good idea.

People all over Canada and USA come there to visit and have a good time. The place rents about 60 yellow school buses every year and drives people up there. Add the people driving in their own cars and you can get a number close to 10 000 people. In addition, there’s free food, good air and nice walk all over the place. If you need meat to survive, you should pack up your own meal, Buddhism doesn’t serve meat. Free food for 10 000 people. That’s something.

Kids, teenagers, adults, everybody can go there. Everything up there was built by the monks that live there. To me, there’s a personal reason to be there, because that’s where my grand mother’s ashes are kept and the whole family goes to pay our respects.

Yesterday, we were blessed with a beautiful sun and a cozy temperature adding up to a wonderful weather. Look at all that extremely well cut grass and the surace is really big. That’s some damn good work.

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